chaco75
New Member
Where/why/how did everyone here discover the magic of A&M records? I remember being 5 years old and walking around an ice-cream shop one night in Acapulco (where I lived in the 70s) and my mom pointing out Herb Alpert and Lani Hall walking around...
I didn't buy my first A&M record, on vynil at a charity shop (Herb Alpert's Beat of the Brass), until I was 15 (1989), this stemming from the fact that I have always had more than a light obsession with my youth in Acapulco and the 70s...decade in which of course I listened to so much music from A&M records since it was pretty much the soundtrack of my childhood. I believe Herb Alpert had a weekend (or more?) house in Acapulco in the 70s, and his music -as well as Sergio Mendes, Claudine, etc etc- was huge there and then. So to me, it's not just about the musical mastery and innovation, but also about the wonderfully bitter-sweet nostalgia it brings me, it's like a soundtrack to memories; in soft-focus lens, of course.
I didn't buy my first A&M record, on vynil at a charity shop (Herb Alpert's Beat of the Brass), until I was 15 (1989), this stemming from the fact that I have always had more than a light obsession with my youth in Acapulco and the 70s...decade in which of course I listened to so much music from A&M records since it was pretty much the soundtrack of my childhood. I believe Herb Alpert had a weekend (or more?) house in Acapulco in the 70s, and his music -as well as Sergio Mendes, Claudine, etc etc- was huge there and then. So to me, it's not just about the musical mastery and innovation, but also about the wonderfully bitter-sweet nostalgia it brings me, it's like a soundtrack to memories; in soft-focus lens, of course.